/*
 * Copyright 2008 Christopher Davies
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package com.googlecode.textish.tokenizer;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * A tokenizer reads from an input list of {@link IToken} and appends to an
 * output list of {@link IToken}.
 * 
 * @author cgdavies
 * 
 */
public interface ITokenizer {

	/**
	 * Takes a token-list input and builds on an output one.
	 * 
	 * @param context the context character sequence
	 * @param input the input list of {@link IToken}s
	 * @param output the list of {@link IToken}s to append to
	 */
	public void tokenize(CharSequence context, List input, List output);

}
